Updated: Microsoft and Qualcomm chastened by four decades of product cycles
For nearly forty years, Intel has enjoyed a PC market dominated by its x86 intellectual property and has enjoyed near unanimous enforcement as it chooses. When competitors like Microsoft and Snapdragon begin to show plans of bringing x86 support to ARM-based silicon, however, Chipzilla shows no signs of letting down its posturing as it evaluates the broader notebook and entry-level desktop markets.
Game Ready driver for DiRT 4 and Nex Machina
Nvidia has released its latest Geforce 382.53 WHQL-certified Game Ready driver which brings "optimal experience" for upcoming DiRT 4 and Nex Machina games as well as adding a couple of new or updated SLI and 3D Vision profiles and fixes several bugs.
27- and 32-inch CHG70 and 49-inch CHG90
Samsung has jumped on the AMD FreeSync 2 bandwagon with a total of three monitors, the CHG70 series, which will be available in 27-inch and 32-inch versions and the massive 49-inch CHG90 series monitor.
Fuji Keizai claims 90 percent will be connected by 2035
Demand for connected cars has been rising and the type of vehicles are expected to account for 29.1 percent of overall car shipments in 2017 and by 2035, according to beancounters at Fuji Keizai.
Two companies added to AI plans
After getting its paws on ARM, Softbank is still growing and has written a cheque for two firms that build walking robots from Google's parent company, Alphabet.
Dealers arrested flogging personal data
Chinese authorities have arrested Apple dealers for flogging user data to the highest bidder.
There is even malware exploiting it
Microsoft's security team has come across a malware family that uses Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) Serial-over-LAN (SOL) interface as a file transfer tool.
IFixit teardown reveals "flexibility"
A new iFixit teardown has revealed that Apple's new 4K 21.5-inch iMac has both removable RAM and a Kaby Lake processor that's not soldered onto the logic board.
Open Rights Group warning
Samsung has been using technology which can spy on its mobile users.
Support for DiRT 4 and Prey
AMD has released its newest Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.6.1 beta driver which brings optimizations for DiRT 4 as well as performance improvements for Prey game and various bug fixes.
